Also coming up hungry and exhausted to hundreds of earth are rescued but all this stuff to death on a refugee boat. The coronavirus pandemic is chipping away at the Global Economy and its now brought forward the worst stretch of job losses in the u. S. On record figures just released show 5200000 americans filed jobless claims last week thats roughly one in 7 workers and in the past 4 weeks a total of more than 22000000 americans have requested Unemployment Benefits and if you are as President Donald Trump is expected to release guidelines on how and when to reopen some u. S. States stand virga is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute he says steps to reopen the economy will work as long as people dont feel safe outside their homes. They were definitely not ready for the economy to reopen because obviously you know the president can can can say to the left would like to reopen the economy and even governors and mayors can go people that are ready to reopen the economy
Now working to prevent the virus from spreading. And also hungry and exhausted hundreds of writing rescued but others starve to death on a refugee boat. Lets take you straight to the United Kingdom where the foreign secretary is about to speak to the nation and to the world about the current covert 19 and lets listen in let me update you on the steps were taking to defeat the coronavirus and also the decisions that weve taken today. Step by step action plan aims to slow the spread of course and a virus so good fewer people hospitalized treatment at any one time and thats the way we can protect the n. H. S. From becoming overwhelmed and it is a step in this way when you follow the carefully and deliberately the scientific and medical advice that we received so that we take the right steps at the right moment in time. At the same time were dramatically expanding and modjeska paths still in terms of the number of beds key staff life saving equipment on the front line so people get the car
A 1000000 coronavirus tests are being rolled out across africa as the continent steps up its fight against the pandemic. Could again be set for a truce the countrys u. N. Envoy says he expects want to be agreed in the immediate future. Hungry and exhausted hundreds of bringing the whole rescued but others starve to death on a refugee boat. Good to be with us and welcome to the news are the wide long term effects of the coronavirus pandemic are becoming even clearer as lockdown measures begin to show an effect on infection numbers the British Foreign secretary says easing restrictions now could undo progress thats been made and a few hours ago the u. K. Extended lockdown measures for at least another 3 weeks. In the u. S. The number of unemployed continues to rise rapidly a further 5000000 people have registered as jobless in the past week and thats on top of the 17000000 who applied since the shutdowns began and its also hope that some of that Economic Impact will be shouldered by 7 of
People from minority backgrounds more likely to get seriously ill from covert 19 in the u. K. An inquiry attempts to find that. Nigeria Security Forces killed 18 people while enforcing lockdown measures thats more deaths than from the virus itself and the drift for 2 months hundreds of Rohingya Refugees are rescued but at least 24. 00 die from starvation. Thank you for joining us we begin in the u. S. Were 3 phase plan for reopening the country for business is about to be launched the trams guidelines are being revealed in just hours after unemployment figures showed just how many jobs have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic since president from the cleared a National Emergency on the 13th of march thats just over a month ago. 22000000 americans have filed for Unemployment Benefits 5200000 of them in the past week before the pandemic unemployment in the Worlds Largest economy was at a near record low lets cross to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett so kimberly we are exp